Air conditioner



J. E. PEOPLES AIR CONDITIONER Nov; 15, 1938.

2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Jun 21 INVENTOR. I

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ATTORNEY.

.Nov. 15, 1938. J. E. PEOPLES .AIR CONDITIONER Filed June 21 1937 2 sheets-sheet 2' INVENFOR.

BY Men/was fiIP PL 4. 7, ATTORNEY.

. The component parts of Patented Novels,

UNITED STATES f AIR CONDITIONER James E. Peoples, Alva, Okla. 1

r Application June 21, 1931, Serial No. 149,397

' 1 Claim. (01. mar-s2) 8 any enclosed place of habitation.

The object of my invention is to provide an efficient air conditioner, inexpensive in its construction and installation.

A further object of my invention is to provide 10 an air conditioner, portably or stationarily arranged and inexpensive to operate.

A still further object of my invention is to provide an air conditioner, operative by air circulating through the. mechanism, the current for II which maybe by motor driven fan or by natural currents of any kind.

A still further object of .my invention is to provide a simple and efiicient means to control the circulation of air, with respect to volume 20 desired and means to vary the humid condition. These and other objects will'hereinafter be more fully explained, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters will 2d apply to like parts in the diiierent views- Referring to the drawings:-'-

Fig. 1 is a side view of the mechanism, removed for convenience of illustration.

Fig. 2 is a front end view, parts removed for so convenience of illustration. v

Fig. 3 is a plan view partly in section.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the screenelements showing a preferred method of hang-f .-ing the screen to its'rod support.

parts iii Fig. 5 is an enlarged viewof the rotor shaft bearing. v Fig. 6 is an .enlarged sectional viewthrou h one side 01 the damper control and lid, taken on lines 6-4 in Fig. 1. g V i my invention herein disclosed, consists of; a housing I in which is trunnioned a rotor later described.

. Extending from one end of said housing is a duct 2 as an exit discharge for the housing, and 45 in which is positioned a motor drivenv fan l. as mechanical draft creating means for air to enter the housing and be discharged outward through said duct. a In the end of the housing opposite the duct- 50 is an air inlet opening as at A, through which I air will enter as shown by the form, the direction of draft being shown by the arrows.

The upper side wall of said opening is formed by a damper l, hinged asat B, to a lid 5 and. 55 adapted to rock to and from the opening, as

impinge the flaps, turning the rotor causingevapshown by;dotted line s .to vary the size or the opening, the lid as closing means for the top of said housing is hingedly connected as at C, by

which means, when'the lid is swung, as shown by a dotted line, to a wide open position, the rotor 5 can bereinov'ed and replaced as said rotor shaft is trunnioned in U-shaped bearings Gythat is secured to the inside of each side wall of the housing. i

Secured toeach of the side edges of the lid 10 anddamper is a pair 01' flanges .l, to slidably engage over theside edges at the upper end of the housing, by which means the joints thus treated are practically air tight and the said damper and lid retained in proper registry with the walls of the housing.

Trunnioned in the said housing is a rotor comprising a shaft 8, the ends of which are seated in their respective bearings 6. z Axially secured to the shaft and spaced a short distance from each end thereof is a disc 9, said discs beingjoined by a plurality of rods Ill, spaced there-around in close proximity to the periphery of the discs forming the rotor, each rod having a flap ll, of woven wire'fabric placed thereon, the saidfiaps extending from one disc to the other, and of such width as to avoid contacts I with the adjacent rods during rotation of the and each of said flaps as they immerge from the 36 fluid will carry the same by capiliarity as the flaps are moved upward and over, when the rotor I turns, the motor power being through the medium oi. air current created by the said motor driven fan, directionally as indicated by a plu- 40 rality of arrows shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

'The air current entering at opening A, willoration of the fluid carried ,thereby, cooling the air as discharged outward'through duct 2, rea conditioning the atmosphereof dwelling'rooms, auditoriums or the like.

I have also arranged a fluid supply pipe I2, and an automatic cutoff actuated by a float it, as 5 means to govern the proper depth and amount v of fluid required for efficient performance of the device. 7 U 1 This invention may also be applied for other purposes, that is to say a disinfectant or other mediclnals may be placed in the water and discharged with equal efllciency.

The disclosed structural form may be varied and such other modifications may be made as lie within the scope of the appending claim.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and. desire to secure by Letters v Patent is:-

In an air conditioner, a housing adapted to contain liquid therein, a lid engaging the upper extremity of the housing, a damper hingedly carried by,the lid and adapted to move to and from an opening in the housing as controlling means'ior a current of air drawn through the housing, a fan to create a current by suction through the housing and outward therefrom, a rotor trunnioned in the housing, the rotor comprising a shaft, 9. disc secured a spaced distance from each end of the shaft, each being in close proximity to its respective side wall of the housing, a plurality of rods connecting the discs, and

rotor turns said rotor being so positioned in said 10 housing that the upper flaps are situated in and transverse to said air current drawn through said damper, while the lower flaps are submerged .in the liquid, whereby the rotor is turned by said air current and the flaps successively mois- 15 tened and presentedto said air current.

JAMES E. PEOPLES. 

